Monotter vs Ebb

Monotter is a private life-logging app that lets you jot down and store brief, diary-like texts—never shared online. Your accumulated notes form a Timeline, and each individual note is called an Entry. Keep your thoughts and activities securely recorded for personal reflection. • Powerful Search: Filter entries by hashtag, place, or rating • Location Tracking: Automatically record where you make an entry and name places to auto-label future entries at the same location • Status Prefixes: Prepend /start, /end, /todo, or /done to mark “start”, “end”, “todo”, or “done” states • Calendar Export: Export paired /start–end entries as events to iOS Calendar • Todo Management: Display a checkbox on to-do entries—tap to mark as done • Rating System: Tap to rate entries and sort your timeline by date or rating Features: • Apple Watch Support: Add entries from your watch and launch via a complication • Siri Shortcuts: Automate entries with voice, NFC tags, or time-based triggers • Widget: Show your latest or highest-rated entry on the home screen Unlock the 1,000-entry limit with an in-app purchase.

Ebb is a quiet journal for the urge to buy. When the impulse to purchase something rises — before you buy, or right after — you take ten seconds to note it: what you wanted, how strong the pull was, how you felt, and what you were doing when it hit. Then you choose what happened: you bought it, you saved it for later, or you let it pass. That's it. Ebb isn't here to scold you or tell you to stop spending. It's here to help you SEE — to turn a fuzzy, repeating feeling into something you can actually look at. WHAT YOU GET • Flow — a calm timeline of every urge you've logged. • Patterns — the moods and situations that most spark the urge, how strong it runs when you buy versus when you pass, and a running total of the money you let go by not buying. • Across your devices — your journal syncs through iCloud, so it's there on your iPhone and iPad, and comes back if you reinstall. • A gentle reflection loop — when you record something you bought, Ebb can remind you once, three days later, to look back: "How's that thing now?" The hindsight is where the learning is. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign-up, no servers of ours. • iCloud sync, kept private — your entries sync through your own private iCloud account, which only you can access. We have no server and never see your data. • Works offline — entries save on your device right away and sync once you're back online. • Nothing is shared with anyone unless you tap Share yourself. • No ads, no tracking, no analytics. A FEW THINGS EBB IS NOT Ebb is a self-observation journal, not a medical or financial-advice tool. It doesn't diagnose anything or tell you what to buy. It just gives you a clear, judgment-free mirror — and people tend to make calmer choices when they can see their own pattern. Available in English and Korean (follows your device language).